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<h2 class="heading2">Logging in to Plesk</h2>
<p class="procedureheading">To log in to your Plesk control panel:</p>
<ol class="procedurelistnumber"><li class="procedurelistnumber">Open your web browser, and in the address bar type the URL where your Plesk control panel is located. <p class="listcontinue">For example, https://your-domain.com:8443, where your-domain.com is the domain name of your Web host.</p>
</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Press ENTER. Plesk login screen will open.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Type the user name 'admin' and your password into the <strong class="specialbold">Login</strong> and <strong class="specialbold">Password</strong> boxes, respectively. If this is your first login to the freshly installed control panel, use the default password 'setup'. </li><li class="procedurelistnumber">If you log in for the first time, select the language for your control panel from the <strong class="specialbold">Interface language</strong> menu. If you had previously specified the interface language and saved it in your interface preferences, leave the <strong class="specialbold">User default</strong> value selected.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Login</strong>.<p class="listcontinue">After your first login, you should accept the license agreement and then specify the host name and IP addresses to assign to the server.</p>
</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Read carefully the terms of the License Agreement and, if you agree to all the terms, select the <strong class="specialbold">I agree to the terms of this license agreement</strong> and <strong class="specialbold">Do not show it again</strong> check boxes. </li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Accept</strong> to proceed to the post-install configuration.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">In the <strong class="specialbold">Full hostname</strong> field, enter your server's host name. This should be a fully qualified host name but without a trailing dot (for example, host.domain.tld).</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Specify the IP address that will be used as the default address of your server. You have the following two options:<ul class="listbullet2"><li class="listbullet2">Select one of your existing IP address from the drop-down box. This list is populated automatically and contains all IP addresses available on the server.</li></ul><p class="listcontinue">	OR</p>
<ul class="listbullet2"><li class="listbullet2">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Add IP Address</strong> option button, select the network interface and enter the new IP address and subnet mask in the <strong class="specialbold">IP address</strong> box. <p class="listnote"><strong class="buttons">Note:</strong> With Plesk you can mark all your IP addresses as shared or dedicated <em class="emphasis">before</em> you assign them to your customers. This allows the control panel to distinguish between them and not to let you assign a dedicated IP address to several customers at once. A dedicated IP address can be assigned to a single customer, while a shared IP address can be shared among several user accounts. </p>
</li></ul></li><li class="procedurelistnumber">In the <strong class="specialbold">Shared IP</strong> section, specify the type for existing addresses: shared or exclusive. Click the <strong class="specialbold">Shared</strong> and <strong class="specialbold">Exclusive</strong> buttons to change the types of IP addresses. <p class="listcontinue">You can skip this stage and define the type of IP addresses later (<strong class="specialbold">Server </strong>&gt;<strong class="specialbold"> IP Addresses)</strong>.</p>
</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">In the <strong class="specialbold">Administrator's preferences</strong> section, change the default administrator password.<p class="listcontinue">Change the default administrator's password. Enter the new password and confirm it in the <strong class="specialbold">New password</strong> and <strong class="specialbold">Confirm password</strong> fields. The password can have up to 14 symbols. Note that the password is case sensitive. </p>
<p class="listnote"><strong class="buttons">Note:</strong> Do not forget to change the administrator's password from the default one to your own personalized password; otherwise, access to the control panel under the administrator account will be available with the default password 'setup', which is known to many users of Plesk. </p>
</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Fill in administrator's contact information. Be sure to leave the <strong class="specialbold">I would like to create a default client account</strong> check box selected: Plesk assigns Web sites to client accounts, and selecting this check box will create a special user account &quot;My Domains&quot;, which you will use for hosting your own Web sites.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong>. </li></ol><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
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